List of parasitic alien species
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This list of parasitic alien species is limited to fictional extraterrestrial species that behave as parasites in at least one of their developmental stages.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
- Andromeni (Battlelords of the 23rd Century)
- Aylmer (Brain Damage)
- "Body snatcher pods" (The Body Snatchers)
- Baby (Dragonball GT)
- Beetle, a parasitic castrator[8] (The Beetle by Richard Marsh, 1897)
- Black oil (X-Files)
- Brain Slug (Futurama)
- Byrum (Mr. Gray) (Dreamcatcher)
- Ceti eel (Star Trek)[9]
- DNAliens (Ben 10: Alien Force)
- DomZ (Beyond Good & Evil)
- Energy Rider (Farscape)
- Endosymbiont (Needle)
- Goa'uld take over immune system; only one per host (Stargate SG-1)[9][10]
- * Tok'ra (Stargate SG-1)
- Gelth (Doctor Who)
- Ing (Dark creatures with the ability to possess living beings, the dead, and the artificially intelligent, who become darklings.) (Metroid Prime 2: Echoes)
- Fendahl (Doctor Who)
- The Flood (Halo)[11]
- Headcrab (Half-Life)[12]
- The Hive (Dark Skies)
- Invid (Robotech)
- Iskoort (Animorphs)
- Krynoid (Doctor Who)
- Life Fiber (Kill la Kill)
- The Loki (Ratchet & Clank)
- Martians in H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds who injected human blood into themselves.[13]
- Metroid (Metroid)[14]
- Necromorph (Dead Space)
- Nomads (Freelancer)
- Pilot (Farscape)[15]
- "Puppet Masters" (The Puppet Masters and its film adaptation)
- Symbiote (Marvel Comics)
- Slimebiote (Ben 10: Omniverse)
- Slug/Squid alien, enters by mouth, modifies behaviour (The Hidden)[10]
- Souls from The Host
- Trill (Star Trek)[10]
- Ungooma (Ascendancy)
- The wind (Hooded Swan)
- Wirrn (Doctor Who)
- Xenocyte (Ben 10: Alien Force)
- X Parasite (Metroid)[14]
- Xenomorph (Alien)[9][16]
- Yeerks (Animorphs)
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References[edit]
- ↑ "Parasitism and Symbiosis". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. 10 January 2016.
- ↑ Guarino, Ben (19 May 2017). "Disgusting 'Alien' movie monster not as horrible as real things in nature". The Washington Post.
- ↑ Glassy, Mark C. (2005). The Biology of Science Fiction Cinema. McFarland. pp. 186 ff. ISBN 978-1-4766-0822-8. Search this book on
- ↑ Moisseeff, Marika (23 January 2014). "Aliens as an Invasive Reproductive Power in Science Fiction". HAL Archives-Ouvertes.
- ↑ Williams, Robyn; Field, Scott (27 September 1997). "Behaviour, Evolutionary Games and .... Aliens". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- ↑ "The Making of Alien's Chestburster Scene". The Guardian. 13 October 2009. Archived from the original on 30 April 2010. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
- ↑ Dove, Alistair (9 May 2011). "This is clearly an important species we're dealing with". Deep Sea News.
- ↑ Jajszczok, Justyna (2017). The Parasite and Parasitism in Victorian Science and Literature (PDF). University of Silesia (dissertation). Retrieved 10 June 2018. Search this book on
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Pappas, Stephanie (29 May 2012). "5 Alien Parasites and Their Real-World Counterparts". Live Science.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Elrod, P. N.; Conrad, Roxanne; Terry, Fran (2015). Help! The aliens have landed and taken over my brain. Stepping Through The Stargate: Science, Archaeology And The Military In Stargate Sg1. BenBella Books. pp. 59–72. ISBN 978-1-941631-51-5. Search this book on
- ↑ Dietz, William (2003). Halo: The Flood. New York: Ballantine Books. p. 199. ISBN 0-345-45921-0. Search this book on
- ↑ Lowood, Henry; Nitsche, Michael (2011). The Machinima Reader. MIT Press. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-262-01533-2. Search this book on
- ↑ "ENGLISH LITERATURE GCSE (9–1) Delivery Guide J352 The War of the Worlds – H.G.Wells" (PDF). OCR. July 2015. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Loguidice, Bill; Matt Barton (2014). Vintage Game Consoles: An Inside Look at Apple, Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, and the Greatest Gaming Platforms of All Time. CRC Press. p. 191. ISBN 978-1-135-00651-8. Search this book on
- ↑ Yeffeth, Glenn (2015). Farscape Forever!: Sex, Drugs And Killer Muppets. BenBella Books. p. 108. ISBN 978-1-941631-40-9. Search this book on
- ↑ Sercel, Alex (19 May 2017). "Parasitism in the Alien Movies". Signal to Noise Magazine.
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